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Recent advances in dementia research in Japan: Non‐Alzheimer‐type degenerative dementias
Author(s) -
KOSAKA KENJI,
ISEKI EIZO
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1046/j.1440-1819.1998.00402.x
Subject(s) - progressive supranuclear palsy , corticobasal degeneration , dementia with lewy bodies , dementia , lewy body , frontotemporal dementia , disease , neuroscience , degenerative disease , alzheimer's disease , medicine , pathology , psychology
In this article, we review recent reports by Japanese researchers on non‐Alzheimer‐type degenerative dementias. These dementias can be classified into the following subtypes: dementias with Lewy bodies, including diffuse Lewy body disease, dementias with neurofibrillary tangles, dementias with glial tangles, including progressive supranuclear palsy and corticobasal degeneration, argyrophilic grain dementia, frontotemporal dementias including Pick's disease, dementias with degeneration of subcortical nuclei, including Huntington's disease and, last, unclassified dementias. Recently, these various forms of dementia have received much attention in Japan, as elsewhere.